Results for keyword: San Francisco Peaks
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What we don't admit about wildfire
The West's inevitable wildfires have a terrible beauty.
by Michael Wolcott, Sep 23, 2010 -
The San Francisco Peaks will never be the same
An abandoned campfire is apparently to blame for the inferno now consuming the mountains outside Flagstaff, Ariz.
by Robyn Slayton-Martin, Jun 29, 2010 -
When the sacred becomes toxic
As Native Americans use religion to save their sacred places, they need to remember that conflicts framed around faith often have unhappy endings.
by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 09, 2009 -
Two weeks in the West
No yellow snow for Snowbowl; gonorrhea and meth: a match made in hell; split-estate bills in New Mexico and Colorado; Montana’s green energy bills languish; “Rocky Mountain High” second Colorado state song, bolo tie is official New Mexico neckwear.
by Jonathan Thompson, Apr 02, 2007 -
Sacred claims
American Indian tribes face an uphill battle in their effort to protect sacred sites on federal land in the West
by Daniel Kraker, Nov 14, 2005 -
Follow-up
Arizona Snowball ski area can make snow from treated wastewater; California battles Forest Service over logging sequoia; Bush nominates Steve Johnson to head EPA; Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., goes after southwestern willow flycatcher’s habitat
by Laura Paskus, Mar 21, 2005 -
Snowmaking on sacred slopes stirs controversy
The Arizona Snowbowl ski area wants to use Flagstaff’s treated wastewater for snowmaking, but 13 American Indian tribes, who regard the San Francisco Peaks as sacred, are fighting the plan
by J.M. McCord, Feb 21, 2005






